{"id":91687,"date":"2026-01-20T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:07:16","slug":"heavy-lake-effect-snow-creates-whiteout-conditions-off-lake-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91687\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Lake-Effect Snow Creates Whiteout Conditions Off Lake Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Accumulating snow and strong wind led to reduced visibility in Upstate New York on Monday evening, January 19, as heavy lake-effect snow impacted towns off Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Richard Hulburd, who posts videos as @weather_buffalo, captured the difficult driving conditions in Erie County, south of Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He told Storyful that wind gusts were over 50 mph and had led to many cars going off the side of the road, power outages, and road closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Accumulation rates were predicted to be up to four inches per hour as snow continued into Tuesday morning, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBUFFALO\/status\/2013414705222602896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:National Weather Service;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">National Weather Service<\/a>. Credit: @weather_buffalo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Accumulating snow and strong wind led to reduced visibility in Upstate New York on Monday evening, January 19,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28845,136,142,138,137,260,3687,45193,7599],"class_list":{"0":"post-91687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-accumulating-snow","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-county","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-lake-erie","14":"tag-national-weather-service","15":"tag-richard-hulburd","16":"tag-upstate-new-york"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}